'Prayer' in the Bible

And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she [was] barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

For you, O Yahweh of hosts, [are] God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, 'I will build a house for you'; therefore your servant {has found courage} to pray this prayer to you.

David built an altar to Yahweh there, and he offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then Yahweh responded to [his] prayer for the land and brought the plague to a halt from upon Israel.

You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant [is] praying before you this day,

so that your eyes [will] be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

any prayer or any plea which is [offered] by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his [own] heart and spreads out his palms to this house,

then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate} them.

then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate them}.

It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven.

Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of [the] chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult [the] living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'"

"Return; you must say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of David your ancestor, "I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Look, I [am about to] heal you. On the third day you shall go up [to] the temple of Yahweh.

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who [were] with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him.

But turn to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Yahweh my God, to hearken to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you,

that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place.

[then] any prayer, any plea that is [made] by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish and [who] spreads out his hands to this house,

then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens and uphold their case.

then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and uphold their case and forgive your people who sinned against you.

Now, O my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place!

Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling place in the heavens.

Now the remainder of the words of Manasseh and his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they [are] in the words of the kings of Israel.

And his prayer, and [how] he responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers.

So we fasted and sought our God for this and he responded to our prayer.

Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the {Israelites}, and confessing the sins of the {Israelites} that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned.

O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name. Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man." I was cupbearer for the king.

Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, [who was] the leader to begin the thanksgiving prayer, and Bakbukiah the second of his brothers; Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.

{although} violence [is] not on my hands, and my prayer [is] pure.

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.

When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble {deliver me}. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Yahweh has heard my plea; Yahweh has accepted my prayer.

O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer [I make] without deceitful lips.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}.

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.

By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song [is] with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands [in prayer] to a foreign god,

O God, hear my prayer; heed the words of my mouth.

Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.

Hear, O God, my cry; attend to my prayer.

O [you who] hear prayer, to you all flesh will come.

However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me.

But as for me, my prayer [is] to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?

O Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

Heed, O Yahweh, my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.

Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.

O Yahweh, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you.

He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.

In return for my love they accuse me, though I [am in] prayer.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty, and let his prayer become as sin.

Let my prayer be set before you [as] incense, the lifting up of my palms [as the] evening offering.

Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. [It is] oil for [my] head; let not my head refuse. For still my prayer [is] against their evil deeds.

O Yahweh, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications. In your faithfulness answer me, [and] in your righteousness.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.

And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will return to Yahweh, and he will respond to their prayer, and he will heal them.

Maybe Yahweh your God heard [the] words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt [the] living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.'"

"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. {Look, I am going to} add fifteen years to your days.

I will bring them to {my holy mountain}; I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices {will be accepted} on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,"

"And you, you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty or a prayer, and you must not plead with me, for I [will] not hear you.

Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I [will] not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble.

You have covered yourself in a cloud {so that prayer cannot pass through}.

All of [the] administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel [and have] agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that {whoever} will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you [for] up to thirty days will be thrown into {the lion pit}.

Then {they responded} and said before the king, "Daniel, who [is] from {the exiles} of Judah, {is not paying any attention} to you, O king, or to the decree that you have signed, {and three times daily} he says his prayer."

Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes.

"And now, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy. Shine your face upon your desolate sanctuary {for your sake, O Lord}.

And I [was] still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision {previously}, {in my weariness touched me} at [the] time of [the] evening offering.

When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, {to your holy temple}.

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

And whatever you ask in prayer, [if you] believe, you will receive."

And he said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing except by prayer."

And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.

Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

And [when he] got up from the prayer [and] came to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow,

All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth [hour].

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God.

Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him.

And on the day of the Sabbath, we went outside the [city] gate beside the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer, and we sat down [and] spoke to the women assembled [there].

And it happened that [as] we were going to the place of prayer, a certain female slave who had a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing a large profit to her owners [by] fortune-telling.

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

[while] you also join in helping {on our behalf} by prayer, so that thanks may be given {on our behalf} by many persons for this gracious gift [given] to us through [the help] of many.

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this [end] being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy,

for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,

for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins {he will be forgiven}.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much.